# EESSI hackathons

next hackathon: ???

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### 2024-04-16 (08:30-11:00 CET)

### People joining

- ~~Kenneth~~
- Bob
- Thomas (08:30-09:30 & 10:00-11:00)
- Pedro
- Julián

### Tasks

- [Bob, 09:00 - 09:30] close open `software-layer` PRs that are no longer relevant
- also check other repos
- also check issues
- closed PRs in software-layer repo that were targeting the pilot repo
- closed a bunch of old issues that were no longer relevant
- pinged some peoeple about open PRs
- PR to remove the no longer relevant `build_container.sh` script: https://github.com/EESSI/software-layer/pull/544
- LATER? use of `*-from-commit`
- [Thomas, Bob, after 10:00] starting new ingest procedure
- [Pedro, Thomas (around 10:00)] auto cleanup of disk use after PR merged
- bot gets event
- determines all directories used by PR
- move them to some `trash_bin` + subdirectory with date of move in name - needs a configuration setting
- have a cronjob running once per day, that removes contents in trash_bin after a week? - needs a configuration setting for time period
- procedure could reuse code used for `bot:deploy`
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- LATER bot for running tests (and creating an overview of test status)
- LATER `dev.eessi.io`
- [Bob, Thomas, 08:30-09:30] Solve id resolving issue in compat layer
- https://gitlab.com/eessi/support/-/issues/32
- MERGED ready for review/merge https://github.com/EESSI/compatibility-layer/pull/199
- Manually ran the script on `x86_64` and `aarch64` nodes and uploaded the tarballs:
- https://github.com/EESSI/staging/pull/1164
- https://github.com/EESSI/staging/pull/1163
- Merged by Thomas
- LATER (needs EB maintainer) Merge (final?) PRs for Bioconductor issues
- https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-easyconfigs/pull/20316
- https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-easyconfigs/pull/20324
- Once merged, retry:
- https://github.com/EESSI/software-layer/pull/526
- https://github.com/EESSI/software-layer/pull/533
- LATER set up bot on Azure cluster
- LATER generic ReFrame test for running `eb --sanity...`?
- RISC-V building software
- build container ready
- testing it
- [Julian] using RISC-V compat layer in a Fedora 37 machine
- had some problems
- investigating --> Solved, it was a compatibility problem with the FUSE module and the (custom) kernel version used in the machine.

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## 2024-03-26 (08:30-11:00 CET)

### People joining

- Kenneth (08:30-11:00)
- Bob
- Thomas (08:30-09:30 + 10:00-11:00)
- Caspar
- Pedro?

### Tasks

- [09:00 Bob,Caspar => breakout room #1] Add functionality for rebuilding software ([software-layer PR #488](https://github.com/EESSI/software-layer/pull/488))
- Use it to fix the `smcuda` bug in OpenMPI 4.1.x
- Note that support for actually removing software from the CVMFS repo still had to be implemented in the ingestion script
- [09:00 Bob,Kenneth => breakout room #2] Automatically update Lmod caches on Stratum 0 ([filesystem-layer PR #175](https://github.com/EESSI/filesystem-layer/pull/175))
- also needs a change in software-layer, to not update Lmod cache there anymore
- MERGED [10:00 Caspar,Thomas => breakout room #4] Split off LUA hooks into SitePackage.py ([software-layer PR #496](https://github.com/EESSI/software-layer/pull/496))
- Required for a subsequent PR which will allow sites to implement their own hooks
- Opened issue [#510](https://github.com/EESSI/software-layer/issues/510)
- [09:30 Pedro,Kenneth => breakout room #3] OpenFOAM easyblock ([easyblocks pr #3232](https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-easyblocks/pull/3232)).
- [10:00 Kenneth] run test suite during bot build step ([software-layer PR #467](https://github.com/EESSI/software-layer/pull/467))
- [9:00 Pedro] Update to debugging failed builds docs [PR #168](https://github.com/EESSI/docs/pull/168)

#### Postponed

- [Thomas] new ingestion procedure to allow for single staging PR (need to write down ideas first)
- Kickstart RISC-V software layer
- Create a build container (some old, initial work was done in: https://github.com/EESSI/filesystem-layer/pull/132)
- Add GENERIC support for RISC-V to EasyBuild
- Update and test build scripts
- Start building for `riscv64/generic` (?)
- GCC 13.2.0
- foss/2023b

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